Episode Report Card Erin: B | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2006.09.25
As they're walking out, Peter comments that Nathan only cares about himself, and his mother responds that their father was the same way. "Alpha dogs, both of them," she quips. "You, in the meantime, for all your selflessness, and sitting with dying peopleâ¦what? You gonna retire on what you make?" "Maybe I'll shoplift my socks," he retorts. She whaps him in the stomach and tells him not to get smart with her. "When you put everyone else first, you end up last. You put Nathan first, he took advantage." Peter observes that she was just pushing Nathan right out in front of him, and she says that Nathan took up more space than him. I'm not really sure what the hell that means. She goes on to say that Peter allowed Nathan to take the spotlight, and Peter just says that Nathan's his brother and he loves him. "Love is overrated," she says. Amen to that. Peter says that Nathan loves him too, and that they've always been close. She just comments that he wears rose-colored glasses, and Peter gets pissed off that she doesn't seem to be interested in speaking anything else but the truth lately and he'd really appreciate a little editing on her part. She apologizes and says that Peter hero-worshipped Nathan and those feelings were never returned. "You're wrong," he says. "It's biological. We'reâ¦we're connected. I never told you this, but when Nathan had his accident, I knew it." His mom's all, yeah, whatever, we all got the same call. Peter says that he knew before the call. He woke up, 300 miles away, and he knew that Nathan had been hurt. She just looks at him, lightly smacks him on the cheek, and walks on down the stairs.
Are you getting all this exposition? Because my fingers are getting tiredâ¦
Nikki and Micah head up to a house with a lot of cacti in front of it. Micah says he hates this house because there aren't any books in it. Nikki says she'll be right back, she just has some stuff to take care of. Micah wants to go see his father, but Nikki doesn't think that would do any good. "Your dad's not in any position to help us right now," she says, dragging him up to the door. Micah asks what his mother has done and she just tells him that she would never let anything happen to him and that she loves him more than anything in the world. "Mom?" he says. "Why'd you look at yourself like that in the fishtank?" She doesn't get a chance to respond because the door opens and a woman with a large amount of hair appears in the doorway. "How long?" is all she says. Nikki says it'll only take a couple of hours. Big Hair tells Micah there's ice cream in the fridge, and he and Nikki enter so that Big Hair can give Nikki what-for about borrowing $30K from the mob. Big Hair asks if she's been gambling again, but she hasn't; she needed the money to pay bills and get Micah into private school. She's two weeks overdue with the payback and says that she thought she could handle it, but she's under a lot of stress right now. Big Hair's like, uh, yeah, join the club, stripper.